The texture fill rate is estimated at 20.8 billion pixels per second. The company would not indicate how many shaders or stream processors reside on the D9M core.

Late last year, NVIDIA confirmed the D9 family will use TSMC's 65nm process node. The company introduced its first 65nm processor shrink in November 2007: the G92.

Other details of the D9M family have already surfaced. ChileHardware published slides yesterday claiming the GeForce 9600 requires a 400W power supply that requires 26A on the 12V rail. Unlike previous mid-range GeForce cards, the D9M will require a 6-pin supplementary power connector.

NVIDIA publicly confirmed other details of D9M: DirectX 10.1 support, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1 and PCIe 2.0 support just to name a few.

Further documentation from NVIDIA claims the 9600 GT will also support the Quantum Effects physics processing engine.

Like all NVIDIA processors, the GeForce 9600 is also HDCP compatible, though final support still depends on vendor implementation.

NVIDIA declined to comment on expected price of GeForce 9600. A representative for NVIDIA would comment that the performance increase between GeForce 9600 and GeForce 8600 is "almost double."

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Well... they are HIGH end, just as the $300 8800GT ended up being a HIGH-END part since its comparable to the 8800GTX.. and there isn't anything that is much faster... other than the $700 Ultra which isn't worth it.

Looking at another major site with a graph, the HD3870 slides in right under the 8800GT. So the TOP 5 cards are:1 - 8800Ultra ($700~800 - avg $700)2 - 8800GTX ($470~600 - avg $500)3 - 8800GTS-512 ($330~$380) [not same as original gts 640/320)4 - 8800GT ($265~320 - avg $300)5 - HD 3870 ($240~280 - avg $250)

The performance delta of the 3870~8800Ultra is not that much.

The 9600 doesn't sound so hot... they put it at DOUBLE the 8600? Hmm... the 8800GT/3870 are already more than twice as fast as the 8600GTS!!. Now if the 9600 sells for under $125 then it maybe worthwhile. note: the $180 3850 is almost twice as fast as the 8600GTS..

Believe me 2 x Ultras in SLI is SOOOOOOOOO worth it! Drives my 30 inch HP with no trouble at all in high res all except for Crysis. I will be grabbing the next gen 9800 ultras for sure end of this year!

That doesn't count quad CF or 3-way SLI. That is mostly made of my conjunctures, your previous list, and my previous reading on the net (COUGH*ANANDTECH*). I'm likely wrong somewhere, but it gives you can idea.

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